The Jump: Eddie the Eagle high on life as star contemplates sporting return

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He became world famous when he finished last for the UK at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988.

He went on to study law, work as a plasterer and also become a motivational speaker.

But he’ll be back on TV teaching a group of celebrities how to ski in Channel 4’s new reality show The Jump.

His sessions with the stars, including Sinitta, 50, Amy Childs, 23, and Kimberly Wyatt, 31, out on the slopes of Austria have now made him consider a sporting return.

“It’s possible I could jump further than I did 26 years ago”

Eddie the Eagle

Eddie, 50, tells Radio Times: “I haven’t jumped for 17 years and I fancy the 125m jump out there. It’s possible I could jump further than I did 26 years ago.”

The Jump starts on Sunday at 8pm and will be hosted by Davina McCall. She admits she is too scared to have a go herself with Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, 42, and Flash Gordon actor Sam Jones, 59, already withdrawing.

They have been replaced by 5ive’s Ritchie Neville, 34, and TV presenter Laura Hamilton, 31.

When Davina, 46, was asked if she would step in if another celeb quit, she shrieked: “No way!”